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Spencer Tracy is excellent as a bootlegging gangster, in the busy 1933 mob movie The Mad Game. Director Irving Cummings’s 1933 American Pre-Code crime drama film The Mad Game stars Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor, […]
Director George Marshall’s 1957 Paramount Pictures comedy film The Sad Sack stars Jerry Lewis and is based on the Harvey Comics character of the same title, created by George Baker. Lewis pops up again as […]
For his 1993 remake The Vanishing, director George Sluizer Hollywoodises his 1988 Dutch psychological horror thriller The Vanishing [Spoorloos] and adds an extra female character (a spunky girlfriend for the hero) and a different ending. […]
Director Robert Stevenson’s 1965 Disney live action family crime comedy movie That Darn Cat! stars Hayley Mills as Patti, whose pet Siamese pussy cat uncovers a kidnapping when he follows the buyer of a salmon […]
Director Elliot Silverstein’s 1967 dark comedy The Happening takes us back to the Sixties when there were happenings and hippies banded together to abduct businessmen. The Happening is soppy but cheerful stuff, at least until […]
Octavia Spencer stars in Ma (2019) as a lonely woman called Sue Ann, aka Ma of course, who befriends a group of typically dumb American film teenagers looking for a good time and lets them […]
Director Vincent McEveety’s 1979 The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again stars Don Knotts and Tim Conway, who reprise their roles as the daffy, knockabout inept outlaw villains Theodore Ogelvie and Amos Tucker from the The […]